Pursuant to Article 7 of the Village Law, § 7-718,
the Village Board of the incorporated Village of Wolcott does hereby
establish a Village Planning Board, consisting of seven members.
The first appointments of members thereto shall be for terms so fixed
that at least one will expire at the end of each official year commencing
at the end of the current such year and continuing in succeeding years
until the entire original appointments run out. At the expiration
of each original appointment the succeeding member shall be appointed
for a five-year term. No such term shall exceed five years.
Position established for alternate members. The position of alternate
member(s) of the Planning Board of the Village of Wolcott is hereby
established. The Village Board is authorized to appoint up to three
alternate members.
Terms. All alternate members of the Planning Board of the Village
of Wolcott shall be appointed for a one-year term and in the same
manner as regularly appointed members of the Planning Board.
Duties. Alternate members shall serve in the absence, unavailability
or inability of a regular member of the Planning Board to serve. Copies
of notices shall be sent to all members. When a meeting of the Planning
Board shall be duly noticed and called for discussion, if it shall
become apparent that a regular member of the Planning Board will be
unable to hear and deliberate upon an application, then an alternate
member of the Planning Board, at the call of the Chairman of said
Board or, if absent, then the present members of the Board, shall
be duly authorized to hear the application, to deliberate and to vote
with full force and effect as if duly appointed a regular member of
the Board.